Summercourt

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Summercourt
Cornwall
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Summercourt
Location
Grid reference: SW881567
Location: 50°22’0"N, 4°58’19"W
Data
Post town: Newquay
Postcode: TR8
Dialling code: 01726 and 01872
Local Government
Council: Cornwall
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Cornwall

Summercourt is a village in mid-Cornwall, five miles southeast of Newquay. The village is centred on the crossroads of the old course of the A30 road (now re-routed north of the village as a dual carriageway bypass) and the A3058 Newquay to St Austell road.

Summercourt Methodist Church (now a private house)

About the village

The village has a pub (the London Inn[1] on School Road), a restaurant and pub (The Fox's Revenge[2] at nearby Carvynick) and there is a convenience store ("Summercourt Village Store" on Beacon Road) which incorporates a post office.

Summercourt fair

Summercourt fair is a Charter fair held in Summercourt in the last week of September each year; at over 800 years old, it is the longest-established fair in Cornwall.[3][4]

Outside links

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References

  1. London Inn Summercourt
  2. The Fox's Revenge
  3. Dr Samantha Letters, Online Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England Wales to 1516
  4. Cornwall County council, document AD1751/4, Notes, Summercourt Fair, St Enoder; 1974